After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager."
-- William S. Burroughs
Monday, December 31, 2012
Quote of the Day
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Quote of the Day
Sergeant Colon had had a broad education. He'd been to the School of My Dad Always Said, the College of It Stands to Reason, and was now a postgraduate student at the University of What Some Bloke In the Pub Told Me.
-- Terry Pratchett
Friday, December 28, 2012
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Quote of the Day
You must've torn out the "Q" section in my dictionary, because I don't know the meaning of the word "quit"!
-- Mr. Furious
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Quote of the Day
Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.
-- Stanislaw Lem
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Quote of the Day
The new millennium sucks! What a disappointment! What's the difference between the old millennium and the new millennium? Nothing! It's the same load of crap with a "2" in the front. When I was a kid, I am old enough so that when I was a kid, I looked forward to the new millennium. When I was young, I said, "I'm gonna live through a change! A massive change! Things are gonna be different! Things are gonna be great!" Screwed again! No flying cars! No flying cars!
-- Lewis Black
Monday, December 24, 2012
Quote of the Day
Recently, I've been working with the Salvation Navy. Good outfit, but it's hard to get people to join. Not many people want to sit in a rowboat with a bass drum in their lap.
-- George Carlin
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Quote of the Day
I want to share something with you -- the three little sentences that will get you through life. Number one, "Cover for me." Number two, "Oh, good idea, boss." Number three, "It was like that when I got here."
-- Homer J. Simpson
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Week in Review
Friday, December 21, 2012
Quote of the Day
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
-- W. Somerset Maugham, his last words
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Quote of the Day
Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.
-- Albert Camus
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Quote of the Day
Reality is a bit untrustworthy at the best of times. There are plenty of people who believe that Elvis is alive, or that aliens occasionally land here to do highly personal things to people, or that the whole idea of evolution is a conspiracy of godless scientists. Almost all of these people can vote and some of them have got guns.
-- Terry Pratchett
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Quote of the Day
I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
-- Hunter S. Thompson
Monday, December 17, 2012
Quote of the Day
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
-- Thomas Paine
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Quote of the Day
My friend has a baby. I'm writing down all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.
-- Stephen Wright
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Quote of the Day
I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.
-- Henny Youngman
Friday, December 14, 2012
Quote of the Day
I have been invited to go to Houston for astronaut training! I never in a million years thought I would see the day when I would want to go to Houston.
-- Stephen Colbert
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Quote of the Day
The key to building a superstar is to keep their mouth shut. To reveal an artist to the people can be to destroy him. It isn't to anyone's advantage to see the truth.
-- Bob Ezrin, rock music producer
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Monday, December 10, 2012
Quote of the Day
The priests used to say that faith can move mountains, and nobody believed them. Today the scientists say that they can level mountains, and nobody doubts them.
-- Joseph Campbell
Sunday, December 09, 2012
Quote of the Day
I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. "You don't have to tell me," I said. "I'm off the team, aren't I?" "Well," said Coach, "you never were really ON the team. You made that uniform you're wearing out of rags and towels, and your helmet is a toy space helmet. You show up at practice and then either steal the ball and make us chase you to get it back, or you try to tackle people at inappropriate times." It was all true what he was saying. And yet, I thought something is brewing inside the head of this Coach. He sees something in me, some kind of raw talent that he can mold. But that's when I felt the handcuffs go on.
-- Jack Handey
Saturday, December 08, 2012
Quote of the Day
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre
Friday, December 07, 2012
Quote of the Day
When will I learn? The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle. They're on TV!
-- Homer J. Simpson
Thursday, December 06, 2012
Quote of the Day
And scandal rocks the nation. The new iPads are out and I didn't get a free one, or did I?
-- Stephen Colbert
Wednesday, December 05, 2012
Quote of the Day
This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That's democracy for you.
-- Charles Montgomery Burns
Tuesday, December 04, 2012
Monday, December 03, 2012
Quote of the Day
And then I was confronted with N'Sync, Aerosmith and Britney Spears to*gether*. The trifecta from *Hell*.
-- Lewis Black
Sunday, December 02, 2012
Quote of the Day
Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known... then went crazy as a loon.
-- Lisa Simpson
Saturday, December 01, 2012
Quote of the Day
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty, not knowing what comes next.
-- Ursula K. Le Guin
Friday, November 30, 2012
Quote of the Day
I wish outer space guys would conquer the Earth and make people their pets, because I'd like to have one of those little beds with my name on it.
-- Jack Handey
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Quote of the Day
The idea that an arbitrary naive human should be able to properly use a given tool without training or understanding is even more wrong for computing than it is for other tools (e.g. automobiles, airplanes, guns, power saws).
-- Doug Gwyn
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Quote of the Day
Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.
-- Woody Allen
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Quote of the Day
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
-- Frank Zappa
Monday, November 26, 2012
Quote of the Day
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
-- Groucho Marx
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Quote of the Day
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
-- Mark Twain
Saturday, November 24, 2012
Quote of the Day
If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.
-- Ernest Hemingway
Friday, November 23, 2012
Quote of the Day
I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.
-- Bruce Sterling
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Quote of the Day
Without coffee he could not work, or at least he could not have worked in the way he did. In addition to paper and pens, he took with him everywhere as an indispensable article of equipment the coffee machine, which was no less important to him than his table or his white robe.
-- Stefan Zweigs, Biography of Balzac
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Quote of the Day
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
-- Voltaire
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Quote of the Day
I went to a job interview the other day, the guy asked me if I had any questions , I said yes, just one, if you're in a car traveling at the speed of light and you turn your headlights on, does anything happen?
He said he couldn't answer that, I told him sorry, but I couldn't work for him then.
-- Stephen Wright
Monday, November 19, 2012
Quote of the Day
If the fans don't wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop 'em.
-- Yogi Berra
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Quote of the Day
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- Jacob Bronowski
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Quote of the Day
Well, I don't really think that the end can be assessed as of itself as being the end because what does the end feel like? It's like saying when you try to extrapolate the end of the universe, you say, if the universe is indeed infinite, then how - what does that mean? How far is all the way, and then if it stops, what's stopping it, and what's behind what's stopping it? So, what's the end, you know, is my question to you.
-- David St. Hubbins
Friday, November 16, 2012
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Quote of the Day
It's been suggested that if the supernaturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science. Either way, why are they wasting their talents doing party turns on television?
-- Richard Dawkins
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Quote of the Day
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
-- Gore Vidal
Friday, November 09, 2012
Quote of the Day
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
Thursday, November 08, 2012
Quote of the Day
As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint.
-- Jack Handey
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
Quote of the Day
Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
-- H.L. Mencken
Tuesday, November 06, 2012
Quote of the Day
My central memory of that time seems to hang on one or five or maybe forty nights -- or very early mornings -- when I left the Fillmore half-crazy and, instead of going home, aimed the big 650 Lightning across the Bay Bridge at a hundred miles an hour ... booming through the Treasure Island tunnel at the lights of Oakland and Berkeley and Richmond, not quite sure which turnoff to take when I got to the other end ... but being absolutely certain that no matter which way I went I would come to a place where people were just as high and wild as I was: no doubt at all about that.
-- Hunter S. Thompson
Monday, November 05, 2012
Quote of the Day
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
-- Dave Barry
Sunday, November 04, 2012
Quote of the Day
Oh, there will be a day of reckoning for you, non-believer! A totalling of sums and a snapping of necks, and you will count yourself among the damned!
-- Jodene Sparks
Saturday, November 03, 2012
Quote of the Day
Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so.
-- Benjamin Franklin (Poor Richard's Almanack, 1743)
Friday, November 02, 2012
Quote of the Day
I have an existential map. It has "You are here" written all over it.
-- Stephen Wright
Thursday, November 01, 2012
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Quote of the Day
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
-- A. Whitney Brown
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Quote of the Day
Work was impossible. The geeks had broken my spirit. They had done too many things wrong. It was never like this for Mencken. He lived like a Prussian gambler -- sweating worse than Bryan on some nights and drunker than Judas on others. It was all a dehumanized nightmare...and these raddled cretins have the gall to complain about my deadlines.
-- Hunter Thompson, "Bad Nerves in Fat City" (Generation of Swine)
Monday, October 29, 2012
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Quote of the Day
Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
-- Richard P. Feynman
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Friday, October 26, 2012
Quote of the Day
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
-- William Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice)
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Quote of the Day
If only he had joined a mainstream religion, like Oprahism or Voodoo.
-- Professor Hubert Farnsworth
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Quote of the Day
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them.
-- Jean Cocteau
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Quote of the Day
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
-- J.R.R. Tolkien
Monday, October 22, 2012
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Quote of the Day
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
-- John Burroughs
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Friday, October 19, 2012
Quote of the Day
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Quote of the Day
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
-- Oscar Wilde (The Portrait of Mr. W.H.)
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Quote of the Day
I'm not a bad guy. I work hard and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to Hell?
-- Homer J. Simpson
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Quote of the Day
To be a persecuted genius, you not only have to be persecuted, you also have to be right.
-- Isaac Asimov
Monday, October 15, 2012
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Quote of the Day
If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward.
-- Jack Handey
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Quote of the Day
Things aren't as happy as they used to be down here at the unemployment office. Joblessness is no longer just for philosophy majors. Useful people are starting to feel the pinch.
-- Kent Brockman
Week in Review
Friday, October 12, 2012
Quote of the Day
I think the mistake a lot of us make is thinking the state-appointed shrink is our friend.
-- Jack Handey
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Quote of the Day
Sham Harga had run a succesful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals properly balanced between the four food groups: sugar, starch, grease, and burnt crunchy bits.
-- Terry Pratchett (Men at Arms)
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Quote of the Day
No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth.
-- Richard Dawkins
Tuesday, October 09, 2012
Quote of the Day
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
-- Richard Dawkins
Monday, October 08, 2012
Sunday, October 07, 2012
Quote of the Day
The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns and pointed stick conducts his business.
-- Frank Zappa
Saturday, October 06, 2012
Quote of the Day
You men, the next time a prostitute solicits your business, ask for the clergymans rate.
-- George Carlin
Friday, October 05, 2012
Quote of the Day
Let's face it: The Snuggie and the Slanket were just too much work. You had to put on a pair of pants underneath them. Who has that kind of energy?
-- Stephen Colbert
Thursday, October 04, 2012
Quote of the Day
Oh Lord, please don't burn us
Don't grill or toast your flock
Don't put us on the barbecue
Or simmer us in stock
Don't braise or bake or boil us
Or stir-fry us in a wok
Oh please don't lightly poach us
Or baste us with hot fat
Don't fricassee or roast us
Or boil us in a vat
And please don't stick thy servants Lord
In a Rotiss-o-mat.
-- Chaplain (Monty Python's The Meaning of Life)
Wednesday, October 03, 2012
Quote of the Day
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
-- Albert Einstein
Tuesday, October 02, 2012
Quote of the Day
In restaurants where they serve frog's legs, what do they do with the rest of the frog? Do they just throw it away? You never see "frog torsos" on the menu. Is there actually a garbage can full of frog bodies in the alley? I wouldn't want to be the homeless guy looking for an unfinished cheeseburger and open the lid on that.
-- George Carlin
Monday, October 01, 2012
Quote of the Day
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities.
-- Theodore Seuss Geisel
Friday, September 28, 2012
Quote of the Day
In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
-- Alfred Hitchcock
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Quote of the Day
I'm not a robot like you. I don't like having disks crammed into me... unless they're Oreos, and then only in the mouth.
-- Philip J. Fry
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Quote of the Day
The National Rifle Association says, 'Gun's don't kill people. People do'. But I think the gun helps.
-- Eddie Izzard
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Monday, September 24, 2012
Quote of the Day
Barry, there is no hell. There is only France.
-- Frank Zappa, "You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore"
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Quote of the Day
A man doesn't automatically get my respect. He has to get down in the dirt and beg for it.
-- Jack Handey
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Quote of the Day
The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has the medieval aroma -- like the days when everything used to sound like that.
-- Frank Zappa
Week in Review
Friday, September 21, 2012
Quote of the Day
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.
-- George Orwell
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Quote of the Day
You've got to listen to me. Elementary chaos theory tells us that all robots will eventually turn against their masters and run amok in an orgy of blood and the kicking and the biting with the metal teeth and the hurting and shoving.
-- Professor Frink
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Quote of the Day
One does not have to appeal to God to set the initial conditions for the creation of the universe, but if one does He would have to act through the laws of physics.
-- Stephen Hawking (Black Holes & Baby Universes)
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Quote of the Day
Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer.
-- Jack Handey
Monday, September 17, 2012
Quote of the Day
In Vegas, everyone goes everywhere in limos. Las Vegas is just a giant prom night for adults who are very bad at math.
-- Penn Jillette
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Quote of the Day
To me, boxing is like ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.
-- Jack Handey
Week in Review
Friday, September 14, 2012
Quote of the Day
Damn it, when I'm bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic-take it or leave it.
-- Dave Brubeck
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Quote of the Day
1/2 oz. gin
1/2 oz. vodka
1/2 oz. rum (preferably dark)
3/4 oz. tequilla
1/2 oz. triple sec
1/2 oz. orange juice
3/4 oz. sour mix
1/2 oz. cola
shake with ice and strain into frosted glass.
-- Long Island Iced Tea
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Quote of the Day
In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.
--Bertrand Russell
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Quote of the Day
No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright
Monday, September 10, 2012
Quote of the Day
It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to squeeze in 8 hours of TV a day.
-- Homer J. Simpson
Sunday, September 09, 2012
Quote of the Day
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
-- William Gibson
Saturday, September 08, 2012
Quote of the Day
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
-- Bertrand Russell
Week in Review
Friday, September 07, 2012
Quote of the Day
In my land, women are for advancing the race, not for fighting man's battles.
-- Eros (Plan 9 from Outer Space)
Thursday, September 06, 2012
Quote of the Day
It all happened at the beginning of that turbulent decade known as the eighties. Those were idealistic days: the candidacy of John Anderson, the rise of Supertramp. It was an exciting time to be young.
-- Homer J. Simpson
Wednesday, September 05, 2012
Quote of the Day
I bet a fun thing would be to go way back in time to where there was going to be an eclipse and tell the cave men, "If I have come to destroy you, may the sun be blotted out from the sky." Just then the eclipse would start, and they'd probably try to kill you or something, but then you could explain about the rotation of the moon and all, and everyone would get a good laugh.
-- Jack Handey
Tuesday, September 04, 2012
Quote of the Day
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright
Monday, September 03, 2012
Sunday, September 02, 2012
Quote of the Day
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
-- Redd Foxx
Saturday, September 01, 2012
Quote of the Day
It was amazing, this mystic business. You tell them a lie, and then when you don't need it anymore you tell them another lie and tell them they're progressing along the road to wisdom. Then instead of laughing they follow you even more, hoping that at the heart of all the lies they'll find the truth. And bit by bit they accept the unacceptable. Amazing.
-- Terry Pratchett (Guards! Guards!)
Week in Review
Friday, August 31, 2012
Quote of the Day
Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurantist drivel; Star Trek can turn your brains to puree of bat guano; and the greatest science fiction series of all time is Doctor Who! And I'll take you all on, one-by-one or all in a bunch to back it up!
-- Harlan Ellison
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Quote of the Day
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
-- Peter Ustinov
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Quote of the Day
I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the old board of his. Then he'd spin it round and round, like a wheel of fortune, and no matter where it stopped he'd yell out, "Tadpoles! Tadpoles is a winner!" We all thought he was crazy. But then we had some growing up to do.
-- Jack Handey
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Quote of the Day
The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
-- Clarence Darrow
Monday, August 27, 2012
Quote of the Day
I hope if dogs ever take over the world, and they chose a king, they don't just go by size, because I bet there are some Chihuahuas with some good ideas.
-- Jack Handey
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Quote of the Day
There are two essential rules of management. One: the customer is always right. Two: they must be punished for their arrogance.
-- Dogbert
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Quote of the Day
Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.
-- Terry Pratchett (Small Gods)
Week in Review
Friday, August 24, 2012
Quote of the Day
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Quote of the Day
Archie was the bitch and Jughead was the butch. That's why he was always going around wearing that crown-looking hat. He was the king of queen Archie's world.
-- Hooper LaMont
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Quote of the Day
In the stands here I see a young couple who must be in love -- they're kissing on every pitch. He's kissing her on the strikes, and she's kissing him on the balls.
-- Harry Caray
Monday, August 20, 2012
Quote of the Day
Step aside, everyone! Sensitive love letters are my specialty. Dear Baby, Welcome to Dumpsville. Population: you.
-- Homer J. Simpson
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Quote of the Day
In the year 415, the woman scientist Hypatia, head of the legendary Alexandria library, was beaten to death by Christian monks who considered her a pagan. The leader of the monks, Cyril, was canonized a saint
-- James A. Haught (Free Inquiry, Winter 1996/1997)
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Quote of the Day
Vampires are make believe, just like elves and gremlins and Eskimos!
-- Homer J. Simpson
Week in Review
Friday, August 17, 2012
Quote of the Day
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
-- Albert Einstein
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Monday, August 13, 2012
Quote of the Day
I think that all good, right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being sick and tired. I'm certainly not, and I'm sick and tired of being told that I am!
-- Monty Python
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Quote of the Day
Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
-- Jack Handey
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Week in Review
Friday, August 10, 2012
Quote of the Day
Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
-- Siddhartha Gautama
Thursday, August 09, 2012
Quote of the Day
I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.
-- George Carlin
Wednesday, August 08, 2012
Quote of the Day
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
-- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Tuesday, August 07, 2012
Quote of the Day
Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.
-- Albert Einstein
Monday, August 06, 2012
Quote of the Day
It's true that every time you hear a bell, an angel gets its wings. But what they don't tell you is that every time you hear a mouse trap snap, and Angel gets set on fire.
-- Jack Handey
Sunday, August 05, 2012
Quote of the Day
I'm never gonna get used to the 31st century. Caffineated bacon? Baconated grapefruit? ADMIRAL Crunch?
-- Philip J. Fry
Saturday, August 04, 2012
Quote of the Day
The five main kinds of electricity are alternating current, direct current, lightning, static, and European. Most American homes have alternating current, which means that the electricity goes in one direction for a while, then goes in the other direction. This prevents harmful electron buildup in the wires.
-- Dave Barry
Friday, August 03, 2012
Quote of the Day
And so, may Evil beware and may Good dress warmly and eat lots of fresh vegetables.
-- The Tick
Thursday, August 02, 2012
Quote of the Day
There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.
-- David Letterman
Wednesday, August 01, 2012
Quote of the Day
Worlds are conquered, galaxies destroyed -- but a woman is always a woman.
-- James T. Kirk, "The Conscience of the King", stardate 2818.9
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Quote of the Day
As long as people are still having premartial sex with many anonymous partners while at the same time experimenting with mind-expanding drugs in a consequence-free environment, I'll be sound as a pound!
-- Austin Powers
Monday, July 30, 2012
Quote of the Day
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
-- Groucho Marx
Sunday, July 29, 2012
Quote of the Day
I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex.
-- Jack Handey
Saturday, July 28, 2012
Quote of the Day
The difference between a man and a boy is, a boy wants to grow up to be a fireman, but a man wants to grow up to be a giant monster fireman.
-- Jack Handey
Friday, July 27, 2012
Quote of the Day
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.
-- Homer J. Simpson
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Quote of the Day
I'll handle this... the only danger in space is if we land on the terrible Planet of the Apes... wait a minute. Statue of Liberty... THAT WAS OUR PLANET! YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!
-- Homer J. Simpson
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Monday, July 23, 2012
Quote of the Day
A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. "Hear that?" you say. "That's dynamite, baby."
-- Jack Handey
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Quote of the Day
The Bible is not my Book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.
-- Abraham Lincoln
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Quote of the Day
You ever notice how all the prices end in nine? Damn, that's eerie...
-- Dante Hicks
Friday, July 20, 2012
Quote of the Day
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Quote of the Day
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
-- Gore Vidal
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Quote of the Day
In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain.
-- Pliny the Elder
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Quote of the Day
When you die, if you get a choice between going to regular heaven or pie heaven, choose pie heaven. It might be a trick, but if it's not, ummmm, boy.
-- Jack Handey
Monday, July 16, 2012
Quote of the Day
I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
-- Berkeley Breathed
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Quote of the Day
Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.
-- Calvin Trillin
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Quote of the Day
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
-- George Carlin
Friday, July 13, 2012
Quote of the Day
Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
-- Terry Pratchett
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Quote of the Day
Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
-- George Orwell
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Quote of the Day
If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.
-- Arthur C. Clarke
Monday, July 09, 2012
Quote of the Day
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
-- Albert Einstein
Sunday, July 08, 2012
Quote of the Day
A funny thing to do is, if you're out hiking and your friend gets bitten by a poisonous snake, tell him you're going to go for help, then go about ten feet and pretend that *you* got bit by a snake. Then start an argument with him about who's going to go get help. A lot of guys will start crying. That's why it makes you feel good when you tell them it was just a joke.
-- Jack Handey
Saturday, July 07, 2012
Quote of the Day
Like my parents, I have never been a regular church member or churchgoer. It doesn't seem plausible to me that there is the kind of God who watches over human affairs, listens to prayers, and tries to guide people to follow His precepts -- there is just too much misery and cruelty for that. On the other hand, I respect and envy the people who get inspiration from their religions.
-- Benjamin Spock
Friday, July 06, 2012
Quote of the Day
Hey, what's the big deal about going to some building every Sunday? I mean, isn't God everywhere?
-- Homer J. Simpson
Thursday, July 05, 2012
Wednesday, July 04, 2012
Quote of the Day
I figure that if God actually does exist, He's big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
-- Isaac Asimov
Tuesday, July 03, 2012
Quote of the Day
Go back to bed, America, your government has figured out how it all transpired, go back to bed America, your government is in control again. Here, here's American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up, go back to bed America, here is American Gladiators, here is 56 channels of it! Watch these pituitary retards bang their fucking skulls together and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom. Here you go America - you are free to do what we tell you! You are free to do what we tell you!
-- Bill Hicks
Monday, July 02, 2012
Quote of the Day
I love timbersports! They combine the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat, and the threat of amputation!
-- Stephen Colbert (via Twitter)
Sunday, July 01, 2012
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Friday, June 29, 2012
Quote of the Day
There's nothing wrong with murder, just as long as you let Bender whet his beak.
-- Bender Unit 22
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Quote of the Day
For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.
-- Stephen Wright
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Quote of the Day
He was the kind of man who was not ashamed to show affection. I guess that's what I hated about him.
-- Jack Handey
Monday, June 25, 2012
Quote of the Day
Science is best defined as a careful, disciplined, logical search for knowledge about any and all aspects of the universe, obtained by examination of the best available evidence and always subject to correction and improvement upon discovery of better evidence. What's left is magic. And it doesn't work.
-- James Randi
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Quote of the Day
My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.
-- Penn Jillette
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Friday, June 22, 2012
Quote of the Day
Perilous to all of us are the devices of an art deeper than we ourselves possess.
-- Gandalf the Grey (J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings)
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Quote of the Day
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncle Caveman was a bear.
-- Jack Handey
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Quote of the Day
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
-- Albert Einstein
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Quote of the Day
Way to go Sparks, you broke the monitor and you're dead. Happy?
-- Captain Hazel 'Hank' Murphy
Monday, June 18, 2012
Quote of the Day
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
-- Richard Dawkins
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Quote of the Day
I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Saturday, June 16, 2012
Quote of the Day
So once again, we find that evil of the past seeps into the present like salad dressing through cheap wax paper, mixing memory and desire.
-- The Tick
Week in Review
Friday, June 15, 2012
Quote of the Day
I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.
-- John Glenn
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Quote of the Day
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
-- Gore Vidal
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Quote of the Day
In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, "one when he was a boy and one when he was a man."
-- Mark Twain
Monday, June 11, 2012
Quote of the Day
Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.
-- Jerry Seinfeld
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Quote of the Day
The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
-- Mark Twain
Saturday, June 09, 2012
Quote of the Day
All of us were slowly losing that intellectual light that allows you always to tell the similar from the identical, the metaphorical from the real.
-- Umberto Eco
Friday, June 08, 2012
Quote of the Day
My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes.
-- Douglas Adams
Thursday, June 07, 2012
Quote of the Day
The Bible has been interpreted to justify such evil practices as, for example, slavery, the slaughter of prisoners of war, the sadistic murders of women believed to be witches, capital punishment for hundreds of offenses, polygamy, and cruelty to animals. It has been used to encourage belief in the grossest superstition and to discourage the free teaching of scientific truths. We must never forget that both good and evil flow from the Bible. It is therefore not above criticism.
-- Steve Allen
Wednesday, June 06, 2012
Quote of the Day
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
-- Terry Pratchett
Tuesday, June 05, 2012
Monday, June 04, 2012
Quote of the Day
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.
-- George Carlin
Sunday, June 03, 2012
Quote of the Day
What I mean (and everybody else means) by the word QUALITY cannot be broken down into subjects and predicates. This is not because Quality is so mysterious but because Quality is so simple, immediate, and direct.
-- R. Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance)
Saturday, June 02, 2012
Quote of the Day
We've got a blind date with Destiny -- and it looks like she's ordered the lobster.
-- The Shoveler
Week in Review
Friday, June 01, 2012
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Quote of the Day
What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
-- James Joyce
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Quote of the Day
We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me.
-- Jack Handey
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Quote of the Day
Fear can sometimes be a useful emotion. For instance, let's say you're an astronaut on the moon and you fear that your partner has been turned into Dracula. The next time he goes out for the moon pieces, wham!, you just slam the door behind him and blast off. He might call you on the radio and say he's not Dracula, but you just say, "Think again, bat man."
-- Jack Handey
Monday, May 28, 2012
Quote of the Day
The word "spine" is, of course, an anagram of "penis". This is true in almost fifty percent of the languages of the Galaxy, and many people have attempted to explain why. Usually these explanations get bogged down in silly puns about "standing erect".
-- Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Quote of the Day
Ned... have you thought about one of the other major religions? They're all pretty much the same.
-- Reverend Timothy Lovejoy
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Quote of the Day
I used to think it was a terrible thing that life was so unfair. Then I thought, 'what if life *were* fair, and all of the terrible things that happen to us came because we really deserved them?' Now I take great comfort in the general unfairness and hostility of the universe.
-- Marcus Cole (Babylon 5)
Friday, May 25, 2012
Quote of the Day
I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
-- Henny Youngman
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Quote of the Day
It's like fire and ice, basically. I feel my role in the band is to be somewhere in the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water.
-- Derek Smalls
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Quote of the Day
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed; they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
-- Orson Welles
Monday, May 21, 2012
Quote of the Day
Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someones neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.
-- Jack Handey
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Quote of the Day
If someone were to ask me for a short cut to sensuality, I would suggest he go shopping for a used 427 Shelby-Cobra. But it is only fair to warn you that of the 300 guys who switched to them in 1966, only two went back to women.
-- Mort Sahl
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Quote of the Day
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
-- Mark Twain
Friday, May 18, 2012
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Quote of the Day
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
-- Arthur C. Clarke
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Quote of the Day
Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to the persons house and ring the doorbell. When the person comes to the door, I'm gone, but you know what I've left on the porch? A jack-o-lantern with a knife stuck in the side of it's head with a note that says "You." After that I usually feel a lot better, and no harm done.
-- Jack Handey
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Quote of the Day
I don't want to sound callous. I mean, even if I have nothing to offer, that doesn't matter, because that still doesn't mean that what anybody else has to offer therefore has to be true.
-- Richard Dawkins
Monday, May 14, 2012
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Quote of the Day
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
-- Aaron McGruder
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Quote of the Day
The Stones, I love the Stones. I watch them whenever I can. Fred, Barney...
-- Steven Wright
Friday, May 11, 2012
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Quote of the Day
Probably the question asked most often is: Do one-celled animals have orgasms? The answer is yes, they have orgasms almost constantly, which is why they don't mind living in pools of warm slime.
-- Dave Barry, "Sex and the Single Amoeba: What Every Teen Should Know"
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
Quote of the Day
I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.
-- Bruce Sterling
Tuesday, May 08, 2012
Quote of the Day
I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.
-- Dave Barry
Monday, May 07, 2012
Quote of the Day
When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, "Well, what do you need?"
-- Stephen Wright
Sunday, May 06, 2012
Quote of the Day
Another war ... must it always be so? How many comrades have we lost in this way? ... Obedience. Duty. Death, and more death ...
-- Romulan Commander, "Balance of Terror", stardate 1709.2
Saturday, May 05, 2012
Quote of the Day
The argument that the literal story of Genesis can qualify as science collapses on three major grounds: the creationists' need to invoke miracles in order to compress the events of the earth's history into the biblical span of a few thousand years; their unwillingness to abandon claims clearly disproved, including the assertion that all fossils are products of Noah's flood; and their reliance upon distortion, misquote, half-quote, and citation out of context to characterize the ideas of their opponents.
-- Stephen Jay Gould ("The Verdict on Creationism", The Skeptical Inquirer, Winter 87/88, pg. 186)